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ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished the season on top in total viewers and the key demographic, but all the network evening newscasts saw their viewership drop in 2020-21 versus a year earlier. The newscast averaged 8.74 million total viewers, down 7% from 9.39 million a season earlier. NBC Nightly…

Editor’s Note: Hollie McKay's latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writing from Kabul about the disinformation campaigns across the Taliban-ruled South Asian nation. A month into the Taliban…

ESPN’s national coverage of high school football this year has now seen two strange events. Where before the network was somewhat bamboozled when it aired a game featuring a bogus high school team, this time, the story was more straighforward. Arizona’s Hamilton High School, down 17 points with a minute left…

The Atlantic Festival, the signature event held each fall in Washington D.C. by The Atlantic, is returning next week as once again a virtual gathering, with a varied lineup that includes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, writer-producer David Chase and United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby. The event also is…

The National Basketball Assn. champion Milwaukee Bucks have a new voice as their play-by-play announcer. Also a new gender. Veteran sportscaster Lisa Byington is the new lead announcer for Bucks television broadcasts on Bally Sports Wisconsin for the 2021-2022 season. She replaces longtime announcer Jim Paschke, who…

Executives on both sides of the $43-billion WarnerMedia-Discovery merger again confirmed the deal is on track to close by the middle of next year but details otherwise remain scarce on the combination that will reshape the media industry. In presentations at a media conference yesterday and today, Discovery CFO Gunnar…

Broadcaster Gray Television has acquired Third Rail Studios, a film and TV production facility in Georgia, from Integral Group for $27.5 million. The studio built in 2016 is adjacent to and will now be integrated into a studio and community development Gray is building in Doraville, about 20 minutes from Atlanta. The…

The New Yorker Festival will once again be a largely virtual affair this year, though a number of in-person events will also be held outdoors, at Brooklyn’s Skyline Drive-In. The 22nd annual edition of the festival will take place October 4 to 10. Amy Schumer, Stanley Tucci, Aimee Mann and Foo Fighters frontman Dave…

Singer/actress Alanis Morissette said she was raped by multiple men when she was a 15-year-old Canadian pop star in a new documentary for HBO, reports the Washington Post. "It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part," the singer says in the documentary. "I would…

The return to boxing by former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield after more than a decade away from the sport did not go well. The 58-year-old Holyfield was TKO’d in the first round by Vitor Belfort in a PPV match Saturday at Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Holyfield was returning to boxing as a…

Under fire President Joe Biden has received some flak from an unexpected source, as CNN’s Jake Tapper stepped up to criticize the president’s Thursday speech outrage against the unvaccinated. The normally super liberal CNN provided the forum that saw Tapper speak out in a segment. "He took on a scolding tone talking…

Deadline has hired Valerie Complex as its new Associate Editor/Film Writer. The longtime freelance writer covering the film industry arrives from Gizmodo, where she was an editor at the company’s genre vertical io9. Complex, based in New York, will take on several roles as Deadline continues its editorial expansion…